Mid Durham

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the North Durham and South Durham county divisions were replaced by eight new single-member county constituencies. These were Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Chester-le-Street, Houghton-le-Spring, Jarrow, Mid Durham, North West Durham and South East Durham. In addition there were seven County Durham borough constituencies.

The Sessional Division of Durham and Willington (including all the parish of Shadforth and excluding all the parish of Moorhouse) and the Municipal Borough of Durham.^[1][2]

See map on Vision of Britain website.^[3]

NB: 1) Boundary Commission proposed name was "Brancepeth"

2) Included only non-resident freeholders in the parliamentary borough of Durham

The seat was abolished for the 1918 general election, when its contents were distributed as follows:

• Parish of Witton Gilbert to Chester-le-Street;
• Remaining northern areas, including Brandon and Willington, to the newly created county division of Durham, which also absorbed the abolished parliamentary borough;
• South-western areas, including Brandon and Willington, to the new constituency of Spennymoor; and
• South-eastern areas, including Ferryhill, to the new constituency of Sedgefield.

الانتخابات العامة 1914-1915 :

كان من الضروري إجراء انتخابات عامة أخرى قبل نهاية عام 1915. وكانت الأحزاب السياسية قد بدأت الاستعدادات لإجراء الانتخابات، وبحلول يوليو 1914، تم اختيار المرشحين التاليين؛

• ليبرالي : صموئيل غالبريث
• الاتحادي :
• حزب العمال : جوزيف باتي